THE LA RAZA CRIME TIDAL WAVE - “These figures do not attempt to allege that foreign
nationals in the country illegally commit more
crimes than other groups,” the report states. “It
simply identifies thousands of crimes that should
not have occurred and thousands of victims that
should not have been victimized because the
perpetrator should not be here.”
CHARLOTTE CUTHBERTSON

The far-right government claims it’s due to “national security” concerns.

On Friday, the Austrian government announced that it plans to close down seven mosques and potentially expel about 60 imams from the country.

The announcement, which was made by Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, is rooted in a 2015 law that requires Muslim organizations to express a “positive fundamental view towards [the] state and society” of Austria, and bans foreign funding of religious institutions. “Political Islam’s parallel societies and radicalizing tendencies have no place in our country,” said Kurz at a press conference. His vice chancellor, Heinz-Christian Strache, added ominously, “This is just the beginning.”

At the conference, Austrian Culture Minister Gernot Blümel told journalists that the mosques had been shut down because of suspected “extremism.” All the mosques that were shut down were believed to belong to the Salafi tradition, a strict and literalistic school within Islam.

For defenders of the move, Austria’s decision was a necessary stance against radical religious extremism. For its detractors, it was an example of the kind of nationalistic Islamophobia many see as characterizing the current Austrian political climate. Austria is currently controlled by a coalition of the center-right Austrian People’s Party and the far-right, nationalist Freedom Party. Both parties campaigned on anti-immigration platforms. Approximately 600,000 Muslims, mostly of Turkish origin. live in Austria, which has a population of 8.8 million.

National and political considerations seem to be underpinning the move. Forty of the imams under investigation are formally employed by ATIB (known in English as the Turkish-Islamic Union for Cultural and Social Cooperation), an organization that manages Turkish mosques in the country and has close links with Turkey’s increasingly theocratically aligned government.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has condemned the move. His spokesperson Ibrahim Khalid decried the Austrian government’s decision on Twitter as “a reflection of the Islamophobic, racist and discriminatory wave in this country” and “an attempt to target Muslim communities for the sake of scoring cheap political points.”

1/Austria’s decision to close seven mosques and expel imams is a reflection of the Islamophobic, racist and discriminatory wave in this country. It is an attempt to target Muslim communities for the sake of scoring cheap political points.

The move raises wider, more difficult questions about the relationship of religion — particularly minority religion — to politics and national identity across Western Europe.

Throughout Europe, where debates over the relationship between church and state are far less clearly (or legally) defined than in the United States, questions of where religious freedom ends and national security — or national identity — begins have been raging for years, if not decades. In a number of countries, including France, Germany, and Denmark, the niqab and burqa — religious coverings worn by some practicing Muslim women — are partially or totally banned.

Underpinning these debates is the degree to which attitudes toward Islam have become conflated with populist and nationalist concerns about preserving “European” — read: Christian — identity. Recent Pew polls have found that, increasingly, Christian identity in Western Europe has strong nationalist echoes; churchgoing Christians in most Western European countries tend to have more extreme anti-Islamic and anti-immigrant sentiments than their non-practicing or non-religiously affiliated counterparts.

In Austria, freedom of religion is largely enshrined in the country’s constitution. However, its controversial 2015 laws on Islam — which require all imams to be able to speak German, ban foreign funding for mosques and other religious institutions, and generally seek to promote what Kurz, then the integration minister, called “Islam of European character” — placed limits on Islamic expression within Austria.

At that time, a poll found that 58 percent of Austrians felt that Austrian Muslims were being “radicalized.” According to a 2016 International Centre for Counter-Terrorism report, some 230 to 300 Austrian Muslims left the country to fight in jihadist groups in Syria.

Austrian authorities have insisted the latest move is designed to combat political Islam, not Islam in general. “It is not a contradiction to be a devout Muslim and a proud Austrian,” Blümel, the culture minister, saidat the press conference.

It is difficult to assess the decision to close these mosques outside of the wider political currents in Austria. While some of the mosques that are closing appear to have been distinctly affiliated with jihadist and far-right political Islamic groups — the New York Times reports that one of the shuttered mosques is run by an organization called the Gray Wolves, deemed by the country’s main Islamic body to be illegal and illegitimate — it’s impossible not to see in (far-right Freedom Party representative) Strache’s words in particular a desire to encroach further on Muslim life in Austria. Given that Kurz and Strache alike ran on explicitly anti-immigration platforms, it is difficult to ascertain precisely where national security concerns end and more prosaic political concerns begin.

Anti-Muslim discrimination has been on the rise — in Germany, for example, the government recorded more than 900 attacks against individuals and mosques in 2017 — and European officials are concerned about increasing incidents of hate crime. Austria’s moves not only risk making an entire minority population feel stigmatized and unwelcome in their chosen homeland but can further increase tensions between Muslim and non-Muslim populations.

This kind of marginalization, in turn, may ultimately lead to radicalization becoming a more appealing option for disaffected youth. In England’s Birmingham, for example, from which a disproportionally high number of UK would-be jihadists hail, recruiters for extremist organizations generally target low-income, jobless young men from unstable family backgrounds.

While in some cases, the Austrian government’s decision to close these mosques may indeed have been motivated by legitimate national security concerns, it’s nonetheless important to be cautious. After all, Strache reminded us, this is only the beginning.

ISLAM: THE
CULT OF DEATH, HATE, MURDER and RAPE

THE BIBLE OF THE MUSLIM TERRORIST:

Koran 2:191
"slay the unbelievers wherever you find them"
Koran 3:21 "Muslims must not take the infidels as friends"
Koran 5:33 "Maim and crucify the infidels if they criticize Islam"
Koran 8:12 "Terrorize and behead those who believe in scriptures other
than the Koran"
Koran 8:60 " Muslims must muster all weapons to terrorize the
infidels"
Koran 8:65 "The unbelievers are stupid, urge all Muslims to fight
them"
Koran 9:5 "When the opportunity arises, kill the infidels wherever you
find them"
Koran 9:123 "Make war on the infidels living in your neighborhood"
Koran 22:19 "Punish the unbelievers with garments of fire, hooked iron
rods, boiling water, melt their skin and bellies"
Koran 47:4 "Do not hanker for peace with the infidels, behead them when
you catch them".

ICE: A “Clean DACA Fix” Will Create An Explosion Of Illegal Immigration

At an event sponsored by the Center for Immigration Studies yesterday, outgoing chief of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Thomas Homan shared his thoughts on the possibility of upcoming congressional debate over a “clean” DACA bill. To put it mildly, he was not enthusiastic. If any sort of deal such as the one being described by supporters of the measure were to go through, Homan warned that potential border jumpers would take that as a signal to get into the United States while the getting is good, potentially overwhelming our immigration enforcement officials. (Washington Times)

Passing a “clean” Dream Act to legalize illegal immigrant “Dreamers” will spur a new wave of illegal immigration and create a new population that will need an amnesty 10 or 20 years in the future, the government’s chief deportation official said Tuesday.

Tom Homan, who has been acting as the chief at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement since the beginning of the Trump administration, said even the talk of a renewed immigration debate on Capitol Hill will entice people to make the perilous journey to try to jump the border, saying during his nearly 35 years in immigration enforcement he’s seen it happen “every time you talk about some sort of benefit” such as legal status for illegal immigrants.

“It certainly increases illegal crossings, that’s been proven for the last three decades I’ve been around,” Mr. Homan said at an event sponsored by the Center for Immigration Studies.

Homan will be retiring at the end of the month, but he clearly doesn’t want to see all of the progress his agency has made washed away in a major setback. And the warning he’s issuing has the ring of common sense to it. Any signal that something resembling a general amnesty with a free pass to American citizenship is in the offing will quickly reach the streets of the countries where most illegal immigrants come from. At that point you’re basically daring them to take a shot at making it into the country any way they can in the hopes of getting in on the action.

And to what end? The discussions of this upcoming deal certainly don’t sound promising. Rather than Lawful Permanent Resident status, members of Congress are now talking about full citizenship rights for an increasingly large number of eligible illegal aliens. (A group which Democrats would immediately begin rushing to register as voters.) And what is being offered in return? All we’ve heard thus far is talk of “a study of future border security needs.”

I’m sorry, but that’s the old Popeye and Wimpy joke, offering to gladly pay us Tuesday for a hamburger today. And as Homan went on to point out, if we trigger a new flood of border jumpers this summer with such a proposal, they might not qualify for a DACA fix today, but we’re “setting ourselves up for another amnesty in the future.”

As I’ve written here repeatedly, the preferred number of people receiving amnesty would be zero. Nobody should be shoved to the head of the line in front of honest immigrants who have been following the rules and waiting their turn for a chance at naturalization. But I’m also aware of the political realities that members of Congress are wrestling with at present. Perhaps we’ll have to accept some sort of limited deal, but we certainly need to be getting a lot more out of it than the promise of “a future study.”

We need full funding for the border wall, the passage of Kate’s Law nationally, more immigration judges and ICE/CBP officers, mandatory E-verify and probably a few more things. We may not get all of it, but accepting none of it in exchange for a massive amnesty which includes citizenship should be off the table. And if such an abomination actually passes both chambers, the President needs to be standing ready with his veto pen in hand.

PARTNERS WITH MEXICO:

The LA RAZA DEMOCRAT PARTY and the PRO-BUSINESS GOP to keep wages
for LEGALS depressed (today they are depressed to 1973 levels).

But you will still get the tax bills for the Mex welfare state and
crime tidal wave!

“Illegal
aliens are not supposed to work, and knowingly providing shelter for illegal
aliens can be construed as harboring and shielding, elements of a felony under
federal law, Title 8 U.S. Code § 1324.”

“Where aliens
and jobs are concerned, even many categories of nonimmigrant aliens (temporary
visitors) including aliens who lawfully enter under the Visa Waiver Program or
with tourist visas may not work in the United States and immediately become
subject to removal (deportation) if they seek gainful employment.”
----MICHAEL CUTLER – FRONTPAGE mag

IMPOSE E-VERIFY AND YOU INSTANTLY CREATE MILLIONS MORE JOBS AND
FORCE WAGES UP!

WE COULD END MEXICO’S INVASION IF WE PUT
EMPLOYERS OF ILLEGALS IN JAIL

NumbersUSA’s Rosemary Jenks:

E-Verify Ignored in DACA
Negotiations Because ‘Members of Congress Know It Will Work’

“According to Immigration and Customers
Enforcement data first obtained by the Associated Press this week, about 70
percent of the 40,000 migrant family members arrested at the border since May
did not follow up their arrest with a necessary visit to an immigration
office.”

Eggs Good For Your Heart? Not Likely!

This week consumers are hearing the news that “an egg a day may reduce heart disease risk.” Cynics might ask does a cigarette a day reduce the risk of lung cancer too?

The truth is the chicken egg has the highest cholesterol of any other foodstuff—packing as much as 275 mg of cholesterol. In 2008, the American Heart Association’s journalCirculation reported that just one egg a day increased the risk of heart failure in a group of doctors studied. And in 2010, the Canadian Journal of Cardiologylamented the “wide- spread misconception . . . that consumption of dietary cholesterol and egg yolks is harmless.” The article further cautioned that “stopping the consumption of egg yolks after a stroke or myocardial infarction [heart attack] would be like quitting smoking after a diagnosis of lung cancer: a necessary action, but late.”

Eggs also have a link to ovarian cancer, says an article in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, and the culprit is not necessarily cholesterol. “It seems possible that eating eggs regularly is causally linked to the occurrence of a proportion of cancers of the ovary, perhaps as many as 40 percent, among women who eat at least 1 egg a week,” wrote the authors. In one study the article cites, three eggs per week increased ovarian-cancer mortality three-fold, compared with less than one egg per week.

According to studies in the journals Nutritionand Diabetes Care, eating eggsis also “positively associated” with the risk of diabetes.

Diabetes, cancer, and stroke are not the only health risks associated with eggs. This month, Walmart, Food Lion and other grocery chains have recalled morethan 206 million eggs after a salmonella outbreak. Thirty-five people were sickened.

Thanks to “factory farming” 30,000 or more caged hens are now stacked on top of each other, over their own manure, to produce a cheap egg. The extreme, crowded conditions invite disease and egg recalls due to bacterial contamination have become a regular occurrence.

A few years ago, the FDA found a hatchery injecting antibiotics directly into the eggs that would become laying hens. The FDA observed that the antibiotic ceftiofur “was being administered by egg injection, rather than by the approved method of administering the drug to day-old chicks.” Would eggs from an antibiotic-treated hen have antibiotic residues? Of course. TheJournal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry reports that “detectable residues were observed in eggs derived from enrofloxacin-treated [an antibiotic] hens,” as well as “yolks from hens treated with enrofloxacin.”

To offset the heart, cancer, diabetes and bacterial risks of eggs, the egg industry continually pushes them to the medical and consumer press with the message that they are healthful. In 2010, US egg farmers in conjunction with Scholastic rolled out the “Good Egg Project” in schools to increase egg demand—similar to dairy industry projects in schools to push milk. The “Back-to-Breakfast Teacher Challenge” gave teachers the chance to win $5,000 by explaining in an essay how the Good Egg Project grant “could be used to offer protein breakfasts in their schools.”

A blurb in Akin’s Healthy Edgemagazine said, “In the past, eggs have been condemned as unhealthy because their yolks contain cholesterol. But studies from around the world show that the cholesterol found naturally in food isn’t actually harmful, according to research presented at the Experimental Biology 2011 conference in Washington, DC. ”

But consumers would be wise to listen to medical researchers not egg marketers. They do not have “yolk” in the game.

Martha Rosenberg is author of the award-cited food exposé “Born With a Junk Food Deficiency.” A nationally known muckraker, she has lectured at the university and medical school level and appeared on radio and television.

CalFire Report: PG&E Faulted for 12 Wildfires

According to California State fire investigators, PG&E’s utility was in violation of the state code in terms of failing to clear brush around it’s lines and properly maintain its power equipment. This is directly related to several wildfires that took place in October 2017 in northern California.

Here are some of those wildfires: Norrbom, Partrick, Pythian, Adobe, and Pocket fires that burned in Sonoma and Napa counties; the Atlas fire in Napa County; the Sulphur fire in Lake County; and the Blue fire in Humboldt County.

Another four fires that took place in Mendocino, Cherokee, and Sonoma counties were all ignited by power equipment.